Real Estate Investing & Buying Your First Home

Today we’re going to take a deep dive into the world of real estate, and we’re going to approach it from 2 sides:

First, we’ll talk about real estate as an investment (i.e. If you’ve ever thought about investing in a property and renting it out).

Now if you’ve listened to past episodes of the show, then you know that it can actually be really hard to get the numbers to work when buying a home and trying to rent it out as an investment. Today’s expert, however, is going to share some strategies with us that she uses to actually successfully invest, and make the numbers work, despite the high prices of real estate that we’ve been seeing.

Next, we’ll shift focus and talk about the different home buying tips, and expensive mistakes that you can avoid when buying a home for yourself. Even if you’ve bought a home in the past, I still recommend that you tune-in as the real estate market has likely changed since you last bought a home. Join me in welcoming today’s guest, Limor Markman, as she shares the latest money saving tips and ways to protect yourself, whether you’re buying a home for personal use, or as an investment.

Even if you’ve bought a home in the past, I still recommend that you tune-in as the real estate market has likely changed since you last bought a home. Join me in welcoming today’s guest, Limor Markman, as she shares the latest money saving tips and ways to protect yourself, whether you’re buying a home for personal use, or as an investment.

Episode Resources and Links

You can sign up for a free webinar with Limor to ask her more of your questions here.

You can check out Limor’s in-depth, step-by-step home buying guidehere.

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Some more good news: I just found out that there is a refer-a-friend option with Paytm where if you use somebody’s referral code, both you and them will get $10 added to your accounts.

Just enter the referral code after launching the app for the first time. My code is PTM4141796 so just enter that and we’ll both get an extra $10 free (this is in addition to you getting another $10 off your bill when using the code “buildwealth” when paying a bill.

I hope that helps! Feel free to share your own referral code (located in the app) and share it with your friends so that both you and them get the $10, plus another $10 for using the code “buildwealth” when paying your bill.

Happy bill paying! 🙂

Harrison Snowdon

September 26, 2017

Yes that worked! $10 came through. Seems like a great app. Thanks for the content you are putting out there. Great to have a Canadian version of Choose FI/Mad Fientist.

Awesome. Thanks for letting me know Harrison. I definitely like it too. I wish it was around when I was in university so that I could get some cash-back when paying all that tuition. At least now I get to be a bit less bitter when paying property tax 😉

Thanks for the kind words too Harrison. Comments like that make my day 🙂

Thanks for the comment Harrison. I think I know why it wasn’t working for you: When you install the app, you have the option of adding a “referral code”. Leave that part blank. Instead, when you go to pay a bill, you will see the option to add a “promo code”. This is where you type in “buildwealth” to get $10 back. Does that make sense? I’ll be standing by in case you need more help. Thanks for posting in the comments section so that others can see the solution too.